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VIDEO. Greenpeace activists repaint plane green on Roissy tarmac

2021-03-05T12:34:34.531Z


Members of Greenpeace entered illegally on the runways of Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport to denounce the "greenwashi


Yellow and white suits on the back, nine activists from Greenpeace France entered this Friday morning around 9 a.m. on the tarmac at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport to carry out a spectacular action on a plane nailed to the ground.

Equipped with paint rollers and pumps, two of them sprayed the cabin of an Air France Boeing 777 with green, while others climbed onto the roof and the wings of the aircraft. deploy banners on which we could read: "Is there a pilot to save the climate?"

”Or“ The solution: fewer planes ”.

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Accusing the government of greenwashing on environmental issues around air traffic - echoing the words of Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, who puts forward the green plane as a solution to make the sector compatible with the climate crisis - the NGO also wanted to challenge the opinion on the lack of ambition of the Climate and Resilience bill, defended by Barbara Pompili at the end of March in the National Assembly.

“This climate and resilience bill is an empty shell,” says Sarah Fayolle, transport campaigner at Greenpeace France.

On the issue of short flights, the government claims that it will close short lines when there is an alternative by train of less than 2.5 hours.

But behind the beautiful speech, there are only five air connections that would be affected by this ban, out of the hundred or so existing air connections ”.

About ten minutes after the start of Greenpeace's action, several air transport gendarmerie vehicles arrived on the tarmac to question the activists.

Some, perched on the roof, who tried to deploy a huge banner, refused to go down immediately.

Source: leparis

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